Since I left patterns & practices six months ago, it's been an interesting experience for me. After all, I spent my entire career at Microsoft in one group, it’s strange to move to a new boss, a new team, and a new set of responsibilities. Fortunately...

I've always felt part of open source uniqueness is that it is so hard to imagine outside of the software industry. Few industries have the same dynamics as the software industry where people can do something voluntarily and have it product anything commercially...

A lot has been made about Microsoft’s corporate blogging. In fact, since my team owns this site, we’ve been getting constant queries on doing studies on the motivations of our corporate bloggers (we usually politely decline). While everyone has their...